Maker Scanner - Scan a room

[Halsafar]

I work a university research lab (The Human Computer Interaction lab
at the University of Saskatchewan). We are currently looking for an
open source solution for a 3D Scanner. The MakerScanner solution
seems very appealing.

We need a scanner for two things:
- The obvious, scan small objects
- Scanning a room.

Does this MakerScanner solution works well in the latter scenario or
is that simply to big. ie. Could we put MakerScanner on a turn table
or something and scan a room?


Thanks!

[Tyler Worman]

I think (others can weigh in here) scanning a room would be a bit much for the makerscanner (ps3 camera and laser line). I've scanned a few small objects with mine and while it might produce something, I don't think you will get the resolution you might hope for if you do a room. As you get further from an object you loose the ability to clearly resolve the line and slight changes in the line produced. Precision control of the laser orientation might help this process a bit.

The turn table idea is interesting and I believe I've seen other implementations of scanners that do this to scan a room. I haven't seen that functionality in the existing makerscanner software automatically

If you really insist on doing this, you could scan surfaces and parts of the room in small amounts, and stitch the created scans together in modelling software.